What is Trigger?

A trigger is a SQL procedure that initiates an action when an event (INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE) occurs. Triggers are kept in and managed by the DBMS. Triggers are used to maintain the referential integrity of data by changing the data in a systematic fashion. A trigger cannot be called or implemented; DBMS automatically fires the trigger as a result of a data modification to the associated table. Triggers can be viewed as same to stored procedures in that both having of procedural logic that is kept at the database level. Stored procedures, though, are not event-drive and are not attached to a specific table as triggers are. Stored procedures are explicitly implemented by invoking a CALL to the procedure whereas triggers are implicitly executed. In addition, triggers can also execute stored procedures.